Piye

Piye

male
Piye, whose name was once transliterated as Py(ankh)i. (d. 721 BC) was a Kushite king and founder of the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt who ruled...
Taharqa

Taharqa

male
Taharqa (also spelled Tirhakah, Tirhaqah, Taharka, Manetho's Tarakos) was king of Egypt, and a member of the Nubian or Twenty-fifth dynasty of...
Tantamani

Tantamani

male
Tantamani (Assyrian pronunciation, identical to Tandaname) or Tanwetamani (Egyptian) or Tementhes (Greek) (d. 653 BC) was king of Egypt (664 BC to...

Bakenranef

Bakenranef (also known by the Greek form of his name, Bocchoris) was a king of the Twenty-fourth dynasty of Egypt. While Manetho considers him the...

Shebitku

male
Shebitku was the third king of the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt and ruled (707/706 BC-690 BC) according to Dan'el Kahn's most recent academic...
Kenneth Kitchen

Kenneth Kitchen

male, 77 years old
Kenneth Anderson Kitchen is Personal and Brunner Professor Emeritus of Egyptology and Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Archaeology,...

Shepenupet I

female
Shepenupet I (or sometime Shapenewpet I) was the first of the "hereditary" God's Wife or Divine Adoratrice of Amun to wield political power in...
Shabaka

Shabaka

male
Shabaka (or "Shabaka Neferkare", 'Beautiful is the Soul of Re') was a Kushite pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt, between (721 BC -...

Amenirdis II

female
The Ancient Egyptian princess Amenirdis II, daughter of the Kushite pharaoh Taharqa, was adopted by Shepenupet II, daughter of Piye, to become...

Shepenupet II

female
The Ancient Egyptian princess Shepenupet II, was Divine Adoratrice of Amun from around 700 BC to 650 BC during the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt....